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This bright red tower resembling the head and neck of a monster was constructed by Dutch designer Frank Havermans as the beacon for a fire station in a small Dutch town.
With a height of almost five metres, the kinked steel tower stands on a grassy mound outside the fire station in Borger and was designed by Frank Havermans to draw attention to the building – a glass structure by Dutch studio AAS Architects at on a road junction outside the town centre.
“KAPKAR/BB-N34 is a kind of an alien appearance,” said the designer. “It attracts people’s attention but also raises questions.”
The body of the tower is painted red to match the colours of the fire engines, plus a large red light is housed inside the upper section and glows out towards the road.
“I designed a fire lamp that functions as a watchful eye in front of the building, close to the roads and roundabout,” said Havermans.
Metal sheet and tubes give the structure a machine-like aesthetic, intended to reference the equipment used by the fire fighters.
Frank Havermans runs an architecture, design and art studio in the Netherlands. Past projects include a sunken concrete pavilion that was cast against tree bark.
Other monstrous structures to feature on Dezeen include public toilets shaped like headless dinosaurs and a robotic octopus.
Here’s more information from Studio Frank Havermans:
KAPKAR/ BB-N34 beacon
The fire department of the town of Borger since several years dwells in a new fire station, which is strategically replaced from the centre of the village to a location at the crossroads of the local highways N34 and N374. Here the right direction to the calamity can be chosen efficiently. The new building (AAS Architects) is an elementary box, which is organised in a simple and efficient way. The service entrances are places at the lower level at a walled courtyard. All service spaces are placed below ground level. Through this all the attention is placed to the nice fire engines that are exposed on the higher level in a kind of window box. The building also has something anonymous and because it is a volunteer fire department there is not much human activity. And if there is activity it most of the times happens out of sight at the walled courtyard. From the “so called’ landmark function building in my vision is no question, and that is not really necessary as well, it is a modest fire station in a small village. But it can use some extra attention that mark the fire station and the people who are volunteering. The firemen also desire that and asked clearly for that. For this I designed a fire lamp that functions as a watchful eye in front of the building close to the roads and roundabout. KAPKAR/ BB-N34 is a kind of an alien appearance that is placed on a two metre-high ellipse shaped hill. It attracts people attention but also raises questions. From all sides on the provincial highway you can see it clearly. It does not look like something familiar and on the other hand is fits to its surrounding in a naturally way. It looks like the fire department purchased a new instrument. What’s the function of this new device? These questions rise when people pass the station.
The construction looks technical and alien at the same time. It is almost five metres high and consists of a kinked metal construction that functions as a stand that hold a large disk shape lamp. The whole targets at the roundabout. It strikes by its expressive appearance and by its red light plane that attracts the attention. The construction self is made of metal sheets and tubes which are painted fire red, the official fire department colour. The construction refers to the equipment used by the corps without pointing it out directly. The lamp itself is constantly radiating a red light through the visor. As a 24/7 watchful eye the lamp points out that there is a system of always alert people in the community even if they are not present and visible in the fire department itself. It shows the community that something is about to happen, is happening or has happened the last hours. Even when the firemen are back and everything is quite again, the watchful eye reminds the community of the local hero’s who take care of all the fires and other calamities.
Location: Fire department Borger-Odoorn, Borger (The Netherlands)
Address: Poolse Bevrijderslaan 100, Borger
Manufactured by: Frank Havermans and Koos Schaart
Involved companies: Koos Schaart production, George Hoekstra engineering
Commissioned by: CBK Drenthe, Monica Boekholt and the municipality of Borger-Odoorn
Fire Department building by: AAS Architecten, Groningen
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The shade of this lamp by Norwegian designer Lars Beller Fjetland resembles a dining cloche lifted up in the air.
Lars Beller Fjetland‘s Cloche Lamp comprises a cast iron base with a bent ash arm slotted into it and a copper or brass-coloured shade hanging from the other end.
The three components simply slot together so they can easily be taken apart for storage or transport.
The Cloche Lamp will be on show as part of 100% Norway at Tent London during the London Design Festival in September.
The designer graduated from the Bergen National Academy of the Arts in 2012 and set up his own studio, Beller, while studying.
If you like these, check out copper pendant lamps with chunky handles by Northumbria University graduate Josie Morris and a bell-shaped lamp by German designer Leoni Werle.
Here’s some more information from Tent London:
Cloche Lamp by Lars Beller Fjetland for 100% Norway at Tent London
Echoing an era of sophistication and grace, Lars Beller’s Cloche lamp curiously explores beauty, weight and balance, seeking inspiration in some of nature’s most elegant and remarkable solutions.
In an effort to set free the graceful, organic flow of form, the Cloche lamp represents an unexpected poetry; one that can only arise from an exploration of the improbable. Unexpected combinations of size, shape and material gain from each other, each part lending its strengths to the other to create a beautifully balanced whole.
Like a bluebell flower, the lamp is firmly grounded by its cast iron roots, while gently leaning its large and seductive spun copper petals towards the light; all made possible by the flexibility of its lightweight ash wood stem. The «Cloche» lamp rediscovers the inherent qualities the materials represent, while gracefully elevating their beauty.
Keeping with designer Lars Beller’s philosophy of honesty in materials and construction, the entire lamp can easily be dissembled into just three separate pieces.
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This squishy light by German product designer Simon Frambach can be used as a warm, glowing pillow.
Simon Frambach‘s balloon-shaped Soft Lamp gives off a soft light and slight warmth, creating an illuminated cushion.
As well as providing a headrest, the lamp can be squeezed into gaps or trapped between objects where needed. It’s made from foamed polyurethane and shaped using rotation milling.
The low-energy bulb within is protected by a cage so it doesn’t smash when the lamp is squashed. A red cord leads out the back to a power source.
We’ve featured a few products designed for sleeping, including headgear that creates the perfect conditions for a nap and a wearable cocoon of quilts and blankets for people to take their bed wherever they go.
Our archive of lamp designs includes copper-spun pendant lamps with chunky handles and scaled-up versions of a classic light bulb.
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The designer sent us the following information:
Soft Light
A soft and flexible occasional light that interacts with its surroundings in a unique way by Simon Frambach.
Soft Light is a soft and flexible light made of foamed polyurethane. Its curvy fluent shape that resembles a calabash pumpkin provokes an organic and familiar appearance for a thoroughly synthetic and industrialised material.
Soft Light can be placed in unused spaces like cavities in furniture and other places as an object that fills a void in one’s living environment. Its warm and tangible surface invites to touching and literally feeling light. The result is a light which is extremely flexible in use without having a technical characteristic.
The light shade has been crafted from a massive block of polyurethane foam on a simple self-constructed device for rotational milling. The device allows for a precise production of a desired shape. An energy saving light bulb, protected by a cage, illuminates the porous foam from the inside.
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German design graduate Tobias Nitsche has developed a chair with a seat and back moulded from lightweight 3D plywood.
The moulded parts are made from thin plywood veneer that can be shaped when heated into tight curves to stiffen the material so additional bracing is not required.
“More deformation means more stability in a chair with less material,” explains Tobias Nitsche, who designed the chair during his studies at ECAL in Lausanne.
Working with veneer specialists at German company, Danzer, he was able to explore forms that achieve the necessary rigidity without cracking the wood.
Four CNC-milled wooden blocks join the legs to the seat and the back is attached using wooden dowels so only one material is required to produce the chair.
“For me the challange was to find a language that translates the characteristics of the material into an object that is light, stable and visualises comfort,” says Nietsche.
The result is a chair suited to use in bars, restaurants or other venues where furniture is frequently moved around and stacked.
Earlier this week we featured the rerelease of Arne Jacobsen’s classic plywood Tongue chair, while Berlin’s Eric and Johnny Design Studio showed a plywood chair with a structure inspired by I-beams at this year’s imm Cologne.
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Here’s a short description from the designer:
Boss is a plywood chair that combines traditional woodworking techniques with the use of 3d plywood.
I worked in cooperation with the German company Danzer who is producing the material. Using their technology gives the chance to construct a plywood chair with a more radical curvature.
The thin plywood parts are stiffened by their three dimensional moulding. Four rods complete the construction.
Like that I designed a chair that is made only from wood and is at the same time light and stable. It’s visual language has never been seen in wood before.
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Product news: this wooden sideboard by Mexican designer Hector Esrawe is intended to reference the way raw materials are stored in piles.
Stack Buffet by Hector Esrawe is a long black-lacquered sideboard that can be built from either walnut or ash.
Two drawers are contained at one end, inside what appears to be an irregular stack of wooden panels. The other end is an open space for displaying larger objects.
Two criss-crossing pieces of wood are fixed to the base to provide the feet.
Hector Esrawe, who leads Esrawe Studio, previously collaborated with Mexican studio Rojkind Arquitectos to design a Japanese restaurant in Mexico City.
Other sideboards we’ve featured include a television cabinet with perforated doors and a collection of sideboards carved with geometric patterns.
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Czech designer Martin Zampach has produced a range of hexagonal bowls that are each made from three interlocking wooden leaves.
Martin Zampach constructed the Poly Bowl using pieces of cork, coated with ash, maple and alder wood veneers to create different colours and textures.
Curved edges allow the pieces to slot together, forming the hexagonal shape.
“The flexible building materials allow for extreme shaping of the segments and when all parts are locked to form the bowl the structure gets its strength,” Zampach explained.
The designer also says that the pieces fit together in different arrangements, “to form illusional 2D and 3D ornaments”.
Marcus Zampach’s previous projects include a collection of handblown glassware with bottle tops that can be used as shot glasses.
Other bowls we’ve featured on Dezeen include some that are so thin they quiver in the wind, a collection made from shredded money and a fruit bowl with concentric circles milled from a slice of oak.
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Product news: this wooden coffee table by Canadian designer Loïc Bard has a gaping mouth for swallowing narrow books and magazines.
Tokyo Table features a distorted circular tabletop that houses the magazine compartment within one end. It is built from bleached maple and it stands on three rounded legs.
Designer Loïc Bard said he created the table during a winter in Montreal and was inspired by childhood memories of a trip to Japan: “I designed this coffee table while remembering the sober atmosphere, the simplicity of the utensils and the rustic environment of the tea ceremony.”
“It focuses on a simple aesthetic and the discreet compartment is ideal for hiding books, laptops, magazines and newspapers entirely out of sight,” he added.
Other tables featured on Dezeen include one shaped like a surfboard, a set with noughts and crosses between their legs and another designed to let you eat your dinner directly off the tabletop. See more tables »
Photography is by Andy Long Hoang.
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